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We have a lot of faith in the abstract. We spend hours a day dancing fingers across a bunch of keys or gliding palms across a rectangle at our desks, sending off snippets to the “cloud,” spinning notes into the electronic ether, and checking in on the numbers of our virtual wallets. We buy promises we [...]

The second half of this decade has ushered in valiant experiments in consumption. There’s living off six pieces of clothing for a month. Swearing to buy nothing for a year. A year-long diet of locally-grown food . All well-warranted insinuations that buying stuff is something to avoid, at almost all cost. Even if we remind ourselves that we’re increasingly defining ourselves more [...]

As we began planning the next Compostmodern, AIGA’s fifth major conference on sustainable design, we were approached by several designers who shared how much the conference meant to them– some even said that the experience was life-changing, as they realized the power of design in solving the largest planetary problems we’re facing. We all know it’s about [...]

The word that seeps into everything from annual reports to dinner-time conversation can seem at times unsatisfying blunt or maddeningly evasive. Though conceptually beautiful, for most consumers and businesses it still remains somewhat of an enigma – an abstract, multi-faceted puzzle of a term that still seems to miss a truly compelling unifying explanation, a holistic flavor, [...]